Semantic maps are a tool to represent cross-linguistic regularities in the mapping of meaning on form...
Keywords: semantic map, instrumental, comitativ, case functions, semantic typology
04/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagExploring the semantic encoding of a group of crosslinguistically uncommon “spatial-coordinate demonstratives”, this work establishes the existence of demonstratives whose function is to project angular search domains, thus invoking proper coordinate systems (or “frames of reference”)...
Keywords: deixis, demonstratives, figure-ground, frame of reference, Jahai, semantic typology, space
01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter